"Men in the educational and care professions: considerations from a field survey". The article deals with the lack of men in training courses dedicated to the educational, health, and care professions. Our research, carried out with university students who have been able to escape their “gender cages”by enrolling in studies generally regarded as female preserves, has allowed us to identify multiple social and cultural factors that discourage young men from entering fields of knowledge and practice that, historically,have been closed to their gender. The article specifically examines three factors: Italian school orientation policies, which are silent on gender issues; a cultural and social framework packed with stereotypes that devaluemen who choose careers in the health and care sectors; and non-stereotypical male role models at home ands chool who demonstrate their skills and passion in the educational, health, and care fields. Our objective is to offer pedagogical hypotheses on the evolution of the male gender as well as to provide a general outline of f educational policies that can promote effective gender equality in the context of schools and training. Keywords:Educational choices, Gender segregation in education, Education, Gender stereotypes, Men's studies.

L’articolo tratta la scarsa presenza maschile nei percorsi formativi dedicati alle professioni educative e di cura. Una ricerca svolta dalle Autrici con studenti universitari che hanno saputo andare oltre le “gabbie di genere”, iscrivendosi a corsi di studio largamente femminilizzati, permette di enucleare una pluralità di fattori sociali e culturali che disincentivano i giovani uomini ad approcciarsi a saperi e pratiche storicamente estranei al proprio genere di appartenenza. In particolare l’articolo ne esamina tre: le politiche italiane sull’orientamento scolastico, silenti sulle questioni di genere; un quadro culturale e sociale carico di stereotipi, che declassa gli uomini che scelgono lavori di cura; la carenza di modelli maschili antistereotipati che, in famiglia e a scuola, testimonino competenze e passione verso gli ambiti dell’educazione e della cura. Obiettivo del contributo è di proporre riflessioni pedagogiche sul cambiamento del maschile e più ingenerale delineare politiche educative che possano promuovere un’effettiva parità di genere in ambito scolastico-formativo.

Irene Biemmi, Silvia Leonelli (2018). "Uomini in professioni educative e di cura: considerazioni da un’indagine sul campo ". PEDAGOGIA OGGI, XVI(2 (dicembre)), 401-417 [10.7346/PO-022018-25].

"Uomini in professioni educative e di cura: considerazioni da un’indagine sul campo "

Irene Biemmi
;
Silvia Leonelli
2018

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"Men in the educational and care professions: considerations from a field survey". The article deals with the lack of men in training courses dedicated to the educational, health, and care professions. Our research, carried out with university students who have been able to escape their “gender cages”by enrolling in studies generally regarded as female preserves, has allowed us to identify multiple social and cultural factors that discourage young men from entering fields of knowledge and practice that, historically,have been closed to their gender. The article specifically examines three factors: Italian school orientation policies, which are silent on gender issues; a cultural and social framework packed with stereotypes that devaluemen who choose careers in the health and care sectors; and non-stereotypical male role models at home ands chool who demonstrate their skills and passion in the educational, health, and care fields. Our objective is to offer pedagogical hypotheses on the evolution of the male gender as well as to provide a general outline of f educational policies that can promote effective gender equality in the context of schools and training. Keywords:Educational choices, Gender segregation in education, Education, Gender stereotypes, Men's studies.
2018
Irene Biemmi, Silvia Leonelli (2018). "Uomini in professioni educative e di cura: considerazioni da un’indagine sul campo ". PEDAGOGIA OGGI, XVI(2 (dicembre)), 401-417 [10.7346/PO-022018-25].
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